Education Quotes - Page 75

Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.

How our governments need standards of integrity! How our communities need yardsticks to measure decency! How our neighborhoods need models of beauty and cleanliness! How our schools need continued encouragement and assistance to maintain high educational standards! Rather than spend time complaining about the direction in which these institutions are going, we need to exert our influence in shaping the right direction. A small effort by a few can result in so much good for all of mankind.

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global economy. Career technical education (CTE) shares the Initiative s goal that all students must be college and career ready. CTE programs that incorporate the Common Core Standards will ensure students have the academic and technical knowledge and skills to be successful in the 21st century workplace.

The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.

We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.

It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from democratic belief to democratic action-that is the hallmark of educational renewal.

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

I was determined to know beans.

My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

Democracy cannot survive where there is such uniformity that everyone wears exactly the same intellectual uniform or point of view. Democracy implies diversity of outlook, a variety of points of view on politics, economics, and world affairs. Hence the educational ideal is not uniformity but unity, for unity allows diversity of points of view regarding the good means to a good end.